Category: BMC Evolutionary Biology

  • Highlights of the BMC series: February 2020

    Highlights of the BMC series: February 2020

    BMC Psychology – Grieving parents and what they need to know when their babies are stillborn Around 2.6 million babies a year are stillborn. Although it’s always devastating to lose a baby,  parents grieving for a stillborn child are more likely to experience depression and post-traumatic stress than those when the child had been born…

  • Highlights of the BMC Series: May 2019

    Highlights of the BMC Series: May 2019

    BMC Oral Health – Big toenail and hair samples as biomarkers for fluoride exposure These days, we are exposed to a number of sources of fluoride, including water (naturally occurring or added artificially), food that has been exposed to fluoride (particularly through the use of pesticides) and dental products (toothpaste, mouthwash etc). High levels of…

  • Highlights of the BMC series: September 2018

    Highlights of the BMC series: September 2018

    BMC Women’s Health: Use of emergency contraception among women with experience of domestic violence and abuse: a systematic review Women who are subjected to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are at a higher risk of unintended pregnancies and abortions, especially those women submitted to reproductive coercion by their male partners. The WHO and NICE guidelines…

  • How do you solve a problem in palaeoproteomics?

    How do you solve a problem in palaeoproteomics?

    The authors ran standard and error-tolerant searches of the proteomes of modern human samples against those of chimpanzees and Sumatran orang-utan. © Andyworks / Getty Images / iStock Palaeoproteomics – Exciting new frontiers Palaeoproteomics is the new-kid-on-the-block in archaeological science and evolutionary biology. Standards of practice have only recently been set out for this burgeoning field…